The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-08-10

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EsrOs, July The recent
renewed attacks being made upon
the management of the West Vir-
gihia Hospital for the Insane BY d
portion of the partisan press of the
State is of such q reprehensible
character, in view of al the circums
stonoes, rs to demand q brief and
nPfejudiced statement to the pub
lie from the undersigned members
Of tho Board Of Directors.
The so-called evidence taken by
the Investigating committee of the
Legislature, sent to investigate the
management and condition of the
hospital last winter, is not given to
the public on the ground of its inn
moral and indecent character and
|slsf for publication. How proper
and how moral some bitter partisan
editors in our time can bel Yet at
the same time they are constantly
guilty of offences against morals and
honor that would make fair and
just minded person stare in aston
ishment at suchmethodso of auphold-
ing virtue and rendering vice cd
iousr' These are part of the dark
and devious paths of such political
hacks, playing for the sake of offices
and plumber alone, prostituting
honor, morals and decency in the
unholy game. In this mad and dis
appointing strife,
CAS- the mind saddens in failure,
Murkier grows in the shade"
But while the evidence is with
held from the public, "moralr editors
tell the people that the investigating
committee found frightfal condi-
tion of affairs existing at the hospi-
tai. The honor and good name Of
the superintendent, of the old Board
of Directors, of the Governor, and
of the neto Board of Directors, are
all to be sacrificed in order to sus-
tain the report of the investigating
committee-a report that cost the
people several thousand dollars-a
report, the coclusions of which are
not warranted by the batch of dir
ty, filthy nonsense, which they call
testimony. Testimony indeed. 1t
would not be received as testimony
before any tribunal, either civil or
military, in the land ON account of
its hearsay character. No fair
minded person of ordinary intelli-
gence can examine it without a feel
ing of indignation that such an
amount of public money should
have been expended to collect sueh
a quantity of foolish, contemplate
drivel and cruelty and necessarily
harass and alarm the feelings of rel
atives and friends of patients under
treatment at the hospital. To more
fully comprehend the depth of this
whole iniquity, the report of the
old Board ofDirectors to the Gov
ernor, that followed the above re-
port, should also be carefully. ex-
amined. That Board was compos-
ed of some of the best and purest
men in the State, and they arrive at
directly contrary conclusion
founded npon the same data, which
was the basis of the Investigating
Committee.
The assertion that we, as mem
bers of the new Board appointed by
Governor Wilson, were SO appointed
with the understanding that we
were to vote for the retention of DIR.
Bland is malicious and Infamous
lie. We would never have accepted
the appointment under any such
condition. All that DIR. Bland ever
could have hoped for, in theappoint
ment of new Board, was that they
should be men of good character
who had not already made up their
minds to condemn him without a
full and careful hearing of the whole
case-that they should not be of the
same stripe as the Legislative In
vestlgating committee. We did not
know ourselves that we would sup
port DIR. Bland, when notified of our
appointment. We had no previous
notice even that we were to be ap-
pointed until it was announced in
the newspapers. After careful en-
animation Of the condition Of the
Hospital, and of the two foregoing
reports, we became satisfied and
convinced of the injustice and out
rage perpetrated upon DIR. Bland by
the report of the Investigating com
mittee. According to our conscien-
tious belief from the information
that is within our reach, this war
upon DIR. Bland is nothing but a
plot and conspiracy of the ssouts''
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